Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PMWhat if U.S. healthcare providers dramatically adopted EMRs in increasing numbers, worked hard to achieve meaningful use, but never benefited financially or in efficiency or quality? Meaningful use will be dependent on adequate EMR usability. Discover how usability relates to a number of meaningful use criteria. We offer a usability checklist to assist providers in shopping for a new EMR, or to use during implementation of an existing EMR, in order to achieve efficiency, effectiveness and usefulness.

Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMSenior Executive Synergy Session: How Improving EHR Stability, Satisfaction and Performance Saved My Job! The CIO of New Hanover Regional Medical Center reveals Project "S," the IT Service Management initiative that the organization employed to improve the EHR end-user experience.

Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM The State of Georgia's Department of Community Health is leading a strategic initiative to design, develop and implement a statewide EHR system and health information exchange for Georgia's Medicaid population.

Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMNursing Informatics Synergy Session: Recognizing the Best of the Best: Nursing's Key Role in EMR ImplementationHear this Davies Award winning organization's nurse leader discuss nursing's role in contributing to the overall successful planning, implementation and evaluation of their EMR system. You will also learn nursing's role in quality and outcomes measures and the implications for the future.

The combination of MR imaging and mammography can provide a cost-effective way of improving life expectancy for women who have an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a study published online today in the March issue of Radiology.

Contrast-enhanced MRI can bring forth statistically significant differences between rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis that might play an important role in differentiating and treating the two diseases, according to a recent study published online in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Its been a year now since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed. And what a year it's been! Critics of the Act say its done little to generate jobs, proponents say its created or saved a million jobs, possibly more.

Researchers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., have used functional MRI to demonstrate how people make decisions about attractiveness and what that attractiveness is worth. The research was published online Feb. 16 in the Journal of Neuroscience.